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October 4, 2020
Abu Dhabi.
The AVOSA Family Ministry teams were kept busy during this period despite the lockdowns and restrictions and participated actively in parochial and ministry related initiatives and endeavours through the online portals.The Marriage Preparation Course (MPC) Team is developing a live online portal which will be launched in the coming months.
The Pastoral Peer Support (PPS) teams in the parishes have been actively supporting the Vicariate’s initiatives for providing help to parishioners in need of pastoral support - via online platforms and telephones. Support has been provided to nearly 445 parishioners to date.
The 23rd AVOSA FM Quarterly Meeting will take place on 10 October via Zoom.
The Lay Organizations affiliated to the AVOSA Family Ministry – Marriage Encounter (ME), Couples for Christ (CFC), Missionary Families of Christ (MFC), Jesus Youth (JY) Family continued to keep their members busy and active during this period.
Couples for Christ (CFC)
Most CFC activities are continuing online; the regular house-hold prayer meeting, formation teachings, Area Assemblies and so on. The monthly CFC UAE Mission Core Online Prayer Assembly and Teaching had taken place as usual.
CFC Kids for Christ (KFC) had conducted their Annual Global Day of Service (GDS). Having started in 2010, it is conducted every weekend in September in every CFC chapter around the world. All KFC members and their families, friends, and the whole CFC Community share the joy of Christ with others by doing acts of love and service, especially reaching out to those who are on the perepheries. Some of these acts of love and service include feeding and gift giving, tree planting, community or coastal cleaning, visiting elders, the sick and so on.
With every family having to now adjust to the new normal, KFC were called to make the most of it by focussing on home-based activities. Hence the 11th GDS was titled, 'Heroes at Home, Agents of God’s Goodness', with the aim to motivate and inspire families to share their blessings with other families. It ran for the whole month of September, culminating in a live broadcast via facebook on 25 - 27 September.
Missionary Families of Christ (MFC)
The Missionary Families of Christ (MFC) had also continued with their usual activities online for their couples, singles, youth and kids through their General and Area Assemblies, Christian Life Seminar Workshops, Bible Study and Constant Rosary.- A Virtual Youth Camp for youth in the age group of 12 -19 was also conducted.
- August 27-28: Marriage Enrichment Retreat via Zoom
- August 28 – 30: Virtual World Kids Conference.
Marriage Encounter (ME)
The ME teams continued their monthly Love Circle Meetings online in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Oman. The Monthly Rosary with Dialogue also continued online every first Saturday of the month.- 17-19 September: The 1st Virtual Renewal Weekend.
- Attended by Fr. Peter Fernando and six couples from (UAE & OMAN), it was a grand success with extremely encouraging feedback received. Couples testified to renewing their sacramental love for one another, to God and to the Church.
- 20 September: The ME National Ecclesial Team (NET)
- Fr. Peter, Savio & Jenita attended the first part of the WWME Virtual Asian Conference. This conference was attended by leaders of 12 other countries in Asia. During the conference, WWME Asian Leaders presented a formation to the team on “YOU ARE LOVED”. All attending NETs were given an opportunity to share their country report, highlighting different activities conducted and the challenges faced.